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Return-to-work safety: Employers find testing employees more trouble than it's worth

from Insurance Journal

Return-to-work safety: Employers find testing employees more trouble than it's worth Insurance Journal From nursing homes in New York and a landfill in Utah to Disney World and the Las Vegas Strip, employers are wrestling with workplace safety in the age of COVID-19 and making fraught calculations about how to safeguard both their businesses and their employees. Mass testing, a critical tool to stem the virus’s spread, would appear an obvious solution. But dogged by issues of cost — diagnostic tests start at around $100 each — access, logistics and employee privacy, tests aren’t part of most back-to-work plans. As health-care companies that work with employers in this capacity are fond of saying, there’s no silver bullet. READ MORE

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